{"id":127707,"date":"2025-06-13T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/127707\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:18:10","slug":"oregon-lands-commitment-from-wr-messiah-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/127707\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon lands commitment from WR Messiah Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/ohio-state-darius-gray-official-visit-five-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rochester (NY) James Monroe On300 receiver Messiah Hampton <\/a>announced his commitment to Oregon during a live broadcast on the On3 YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n<p>The blue-chip Hampton chose to play for head coach Dan Lanning and the Ducks over Miami, Penn State, Syracuse and several others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite thing is just the staff,\u201d Hampton said. His lead recruiter was future position coach Ross Douglas. \u201cThe staff is amazing. I feel like they showed I was a priority and they were invested in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 180-pound Hampton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/oregon-ducks\/football\/2026\/industry-comparison-commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">becomes commit No. 8 for Oregon in the 2026 cycle<\/a>. He On3\u2019s No. 7 receiver and No. 48 prospect overall. The On3 Industry tabs him No. 14 and No. 107 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt like a priority, not just the receiver coach but the staff as a whole,\u201d Hampton said. \u201cI fit well on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith is big in my life and I feel like I have room to grow in my faith there without much distraction and become the the best football player and best man I can be off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oregon\u2019s Ross Douglas was the difference in landing Messiah Hampton<\/p>\n<p>Douglas was recruiting Hampton when he was the receivers coach at Syracuse and the relationship transitioned smoothly to Oregon. They talked often and Hampton visited three times this calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe No. 1 thing for me was how invested I feel like the coach is into my development right now in high school before I even got there,\u201d Hampton said. \u201cEven from his time back at Syracuse we had Zoom meetings every Monday going over route breakdowns, going over releases, going over everything. Then getting over to Oregon him telling the building about me and them showing the same love. They truly invested in my success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two seasons Hampton turned 90 receptions into 1,366 yards and 21 touchdowns in 20 games. Other offers including Georgia, Michigan and Ohio State. He loves the trajectory of the Oregon program under Lanning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year since he\u2019s been there it\u2019s been constant progress,\u201d Hampton said. \u201cI\u2019m really excited about what this year is going to look like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester (NY) James Monroe On300 receiver Messiah Hampton announced his commitment to Oregon during a live broadcast on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,16557],"class_list":{"0":"post-127707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-messiah-hampton-26-james-monroe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114678379673512909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}